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I'm at the same time a very spiritual person and very rational. That's possible because I wasn't indoctrinated into any religion from an early age, but started

I'm at the same time a very spiritual person and very rational. That's possible because I wasn't indoctrinated into any religion from an early age, but started looking by myself what's this life's all about. I think that if we understand God as the source of every natural mechanism from which everything comes from and functions, once we look deeply enough even in a grain of sand we will find it. I think the Creator/God can't be qualified. Once you qualify God as He, or She, or It, or Benevolent, or Malevolent, it's not God anymore. As understanding God is impossible for a human mind, people create their own versions. But this God essence is ingrained in everything that exists, including us. The mechanisms by which that all happens can't be understood fully by us in this stage, but we can experience this Force if we look in the right place and with the right emotion. That appears to be the key, emotion, not rationality.

t0mbstone 6y ago
Yeah, I basically consider the universe itself to be "God". I don't think of it as something that looks like a man, or something that even necessarily cares about humans any more than it cares about other life. It just is. It's the grand summation of all things, and the laws of nature. It is what it is, and science is the study of getting to know it better.
- rafaelvasco 6y ago
  Of all systems of describing reality out there, I really like Advaita Vedanta. Everything is a manifestation of God or Brahman. As such, the dual aspect of reality and vision of separated things is an illusion. The only truth is that everything is One. As such everything is connected. Individuality is merely an illusion created by our minds so that we can live as individuals. Our mind naturally blocks this connection. Mediums, psychics, healers etc, are people that realized this connection to some extent.
- keiferski 6y ago
  You would probably like Spinoza, pantheism, and panentheism. Spinoza's concept of God is really intellectually beautiful. "I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." - Albert Einstein https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/spinozas-god https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/spinozas-...

t0mbstone 6y ago

Yeah, I basically consider the universe itself to be "God". I don't think of it as something that looks like a man, or something that even necessarily cares about humans any more than it cares about other life. It just is. It's the grand summation of all things, and the laws of nature. It is what it is, and science is the study of getting to know it better.

rafaelvasco 6y ago
Of all systems of describing reality out there, I really like Advaita Vedanta. Everything is a manifestation of God or Brahman. As such, the dual aspect of reality and vision of separated things is an illusion. The only truth is that everything is One. As such everything is connected. Individuality is merely an illusion created by our minds so that we can live as individuals. Our mind naturally blocks this connection. Mediums, psychics, healers etc, are people that realized this connection to some extent.
keiferski 6y ago
You would probably like Spinoza, pantheism, and panentheism. Spinoza's concept of God is really intellectually beautiful. "I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." - Albert Einstein https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinozism https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/spinozas-god https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/spinozas-...